My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 43 Fury

When he reached the edge of the attic, a sudden heavy rain began to fall outside the window. Amid the sound of the rain, Ji Minghuan looked at the locked wooden door, reached into the hole with a restraint belt, and removed the lock on the opposite side of the door.

Then he took back the tape, pushed open the wooden door, and, careful not to wake the girl behind him, walked down the stairs.

Coming to this library after many days, Ji Minghuan looked around, slightly curled his nose, and breathed in the smell of the piles of old books. He didn't know how many days and evenings he had spent smelling this smell.

At this time, the rain outside the window was getting heavier, and the strong wind made every window of the library bang.

But at this time, Ji Minghuan's attention was not on the library, but on the stairs leading down at the edge of the library.

He was alert to his surroundings, slowing down his pace as he walked towards the basement entrance. He went deeper into the darkness step by step and came to the iron door that he was not allowed to touch in his memory.

He pressed the restraints against the iron door, and his senses seeped forward like rain, bringing with them the scene behind the door.

Cramped, stuffy, and damp, perhaps it's just an ordinary basement.

Ji Minghuan raised his right hand, lowered his eyes to look at the door lock, and used the black restraints to perform a series of delicate operations, quietly prying open the locks of the iron door.

Then, with a clang, the iron door was gently pushed open. Behind the door was a corridor leading to a place where one could not see one's hand in front of one's face.

Keeping the restraints changing color, he slowly walked deeper into the basement. Everything was not as Ji Minghuan had imagined. The research institute lay beneath the library. The more he looked at it, the more it looked like an ordinary basement.

At this moment, the keen sense of the restraints allowed him to hear a faint gasp.

Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows under the mask, then moved closer to the source of the sound, went down another staircase, and finally came to the corner.

Raise your right hand and extend the restraint strap.

His sense of restraint was particularly sharp in the dark. In a cramped corner deep in the basement, he saw a ragged black-haired girl. Her right hand and foot were connected by chains, which were fastened to a nearby stone pillar. The girl had many wounds on her body, but most of them were bruises.

Through his senses, Ji Minghuan saw her face clearly.

He was stunned for a second, then opened his eyes slightly in the darkness.

Ji Minghuan had met this girl before when he was first admitted to the hospital. Her name was Xu Keyin. Both of them were frail and sickly, so they often huddled together in a corner of the playground to read. Over time, they became friends. Although they didn't talk much, she was one of the few people Ji Minghuan truly considered a friend.

But then the girl suddenly disappeared, without any warning, as fleeting as snow falling on the palm of your hand.

Soon after, the old dean informed the police of the girl’s disappearance, but for several years, the police were unable to find the girl’s whereabouts. Repeated investigations ended in vain, and finally the case was forced to close.

In the welfare home, including Ji Minghuan, everyone thought that the girl was either dead or abducted by human traffickers.

But no one would have thought that the girl had actually been locked up in this basement. Every night when they lay down on their beds in the dormitory and fell asleep peacefully, the girl would lean against the damp and cold wall with her head drooped, forcing herself to fall asleep.

There is only one person who can do all this, only one person has the key to this basement, and that is:
——Dean.

[Completed "Card Event No. ①" and received the reward: Event Card - "Bird in a Cage."]

Looking at the wounds all over the girl's body, Ji Minghuan's pupils shrank slightly.

He tried to open his mouth, but no words came out.

The drooping hair covered the eyes under the mask, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and every restraint wrapped around his body was trembling faintly. Each restraint was trying to restrain the senses as much as possible, as if not wanting him to continue seeing the girl's miserable condition.

After a moment, he slowly raised his head and looked at the surveillance camera in the basement expressionlessly, as if he was looking at someone behind the screen through the surveillance camera.

Three minutes later, inside the dean's office.

There was heavy rain outside the window. The old dean wiped his hair with a hot towel, walked into the office with a cup of hot tea, and sat down in front of the desk. Just as he was about to turn on the computer to check the surveillance directory, the window behind him suddenly opened, and then his neck was suddenly wrapped by a black belt, and he was suddenly pulled back and stuck on the back of the chair.

"Tell me... who took Ji Minghuan and Kong Youling away a month ago?" The black pupa lifted the color-changing effect of the restraints, revealed his true form, and spoke slowly in his ear.

"I...I don't know..."

The dean's face flushed red, and he pulled the restraints around his neck tightly with both hands, as if he was pulling a big black snake, but the restraints never moved, constantly providing him with a suffocating feeling as if he had fallen into the deep ocean.

"You don't know? Oh yes, there is always a way to let you know."

As he spoke, Hei Pupa wrapped the warden's lower body with a restraint belt and released the skill he had just learned - "Restraint Belt Mantra".

[Truth of the Binding Belt: Force a character bound by your binding belt to speak the truth.]

"No features... They wrapped themselves tightly." The dean said hoarsely.

"Then what do you remember?" Hei Pu asked word by word, his words seemed to be accompanied by the rumbling sound of thunder.

"I remember a pattern on their uniforms wrapped in their coats."

"Pattern? What pattern?"

"Let me go first...let me go, I'll draw for you, I'll draw for you!" the dean said hoarsely.

Hearing this, Hei Pupa loosened the restraints slightly and used them to throw a pen to the ground, like throwing food to a dog.

The dean picked up the pen and slid down from the swivel chair. He knelt on the ground and drew a hexagram with trembling hands. There was a circle in the middle and a larger circle outside that connected each corner of the hexagram.

Ji Minghuan was stunned for a second under the mask. This pattern had appeared in the memory of game character number two.

Xia Pingzhou's former teammate, "Red Light," went berserk and became a lunatic who specialized in hunting down exorcists. Every time he committed a crime, he would leave behind a hexagram pattern and write a string of Latin words next to it:

——Sodalitas Salvifica (Society of the Salvation).

The hexagram pattern in my memory and the pattern the dean drew on the ground... are exactly the same.

Why does the red light leave the same pattern and a string of Latin words meaning "Salvation" after going crazy and killing people?
"The Salvation Society..." Hei Pu read out the Latin words left by Hongdao Deng, narrowing his eyes. "The uniforms of the people who took Kong Youling and me away had the same six-pointed star pattern. Could it be that... the instructor and the others are from this organization called the 'Salvation Society'?"

He tapped the computer keyboard with his restraints and said after a moment, "All the surveillance records from those two days have disappeared from the welfare home's surveillance cameras?"

The dean held his still aching throat and said intermittently: "This is what they asked me to do. I had no choice but to do it!"

Hei Pupa sat in the swivel chair, tilted his head, and clasped his fingers together in his black leather-gloved hands. "Let me guess, you must have gained a lot of benefits from them?"

"No, absolutely not. I just think it would be better for those two children..."

Black Pupa once again tied up his body with restraints and used the "restraint mantra" to force him to tell the truth.

"I... I got two hundred thousand from them." The dean changed his words, his voice hardly sounding like his own.

"You sold your conscience for money, betraying these fatherless and motherless children, who no one would care about even if they disappeared, to the devil." Black Pupa said slowly, "Why? In your eyes, is the money you received really more important than the safety of these two children?"

As he spoke, his eyes glanced at the safe in the corner of the office.

The dean stammered, "He, they threatened me!"

"If they really threatened you... why didn't you report it to the Deviant Association?" Black Pupa crossed his fingers and tilted his head. "Or do you think the Deviant Association can't control them?" He paused. "That's not the case. You haven't been threatened from the beginning to the end."

As he spoke, the restraints suddenly extended, grabbed the safe hidden in the bookshelf, and slammed it to the ground.

The safe shattered with a bang, and amidst the arcing arcs of electricity like water, metal parts flew out in all directions, and then a piece of letter fell to the ground. Hei Pupa used the restraints to pick up the letter, opened it, and took a quick glance. Inside was a thick stack of banknotes.

He used the restraints to replace his right hand to flip the banknotes and confirm the total amount.

"Two hundred thousand yuan," Hei Pu calculated with his fingers. "Uh... just for two hundred thousand yuan, you sold your soul, sent the children in the orphanage to people of unknown origin, and had no regard for their future. Did you ever feel guilty for even a second, old director?"

"you misunderstood."

"Oh, are you sure...I misunderstood?"

Hei Pu changed his relaxed tone, slowly lifted his mask, and stared straight at the dean's face with his deep eyes.

The next moment, the restraints sent the dean out of the window, causing him to plummet from a height of ten meters to the ground amidst heavy rain. In the last few seconds before he hit the ground, the restraints pulled him back and threw him hard to the ground. He slid several meters away and hit the tea table.

The dean's body was washed by the rain like a drowned rat. He raised his head, his face distorted to the extreme by fear, and stared at the mask of the black pupa with a pale face.

"I was wrong...I was wrong."

He murmured hoarsely and knelt quickly on the ground.

"That girl you locked up in the basement and abused day and night...how do you want to explain this?"

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault..." The dean was trembling all over.

"You won't even explain?"

"Let me go... please forgive me..."

"Okay, then I forgive you." Hei Pupa said calmly. After all, no one would bother with a dead person, he thought.

As soon as he finished speaking, the pitch-black restraints surged forward like a tide, gently and slowly lifting the dean up. Then, like wriggling thorns, they scratched his thighs, spiraled up his waist, and finally wrapped around his neck.

The restraints were wrapped around and tied into a knot, a dead knot. Then, suddenly, it tightened.

The black pupa narrowed his eyes and watched the scene silently.

The man, whose neck was entangled by the knotted restraints, convulsed violently, struggling for a moment with a flushed face. Then, like a severed reed, his arms slowly dropped, his head drooping. His eyelids were still open, his gaze fixed on the ground, and he was completely motionless.

Amidst the blood, a slender black shadow stood quietly.

Beneath the mask, Ji Minghuan's face showed no expression. He twitched his nose slightly, and the smell of blood hit him.

Deathly silence enveloped the office. Wind and rain beat against the window, and the rain swept in at an angle, lifting the hem of his clothes.

"I was too impulsive... If the instructor knew that the dean died at the hands of Black Pupa, he would become suspicious of me."

He murmured softly amid the sound of rain.

After a long silence, Ji Minghuan reached into his windbreaker pocket, took out his cell phone, put it to his ear, and called Gu Qinye.

"Who are you?" Soon, a response came from the other end of the phone.

"Mr. Lan Arc... I need your help." Ji Minghuan spoke slowly using a voice changer, trying his best to keep his tone as playful and relaxed as possible, but his voice was a little hoarse.

"you again……"

Hearing his voice, Gu Qiye's tone became gloomy.

"Come to the Saint Dili Welfare Home..." Ji Minghuan said expressionlessly, "There's a body in the director's office. I need you to cover for me. Announce to the public that the cause of death was 'suicide by hanging.'"

"You killed someone?"

Black Pupa didn't answer his question, but whispered, "There's a girl in the library's basement. Looking at her, you'll understand why the dean died. That's all I'll say... If you don't help me, I'll reveal your identity to the world."

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone: "I'll go over and confirm the situation first, and then decide whether to help you or not."

Gu Qiye paused, his tone gradually becoming graver: "Let me make it clear first, if I don't want to help you, it doesn't matter even if you reveal my identity to the public... I will not help a criminal, this is my principle."

"That's all," Hei Pupa paused, "By the way, the girl in the basement..."

"what?"

Ji Minghuan was silent for a moment beneath the mask. He glanced sideways at the heavy rain outside the window and said slowly, "I hope you can arrange a good place for her to live, let her go to school like a normal child, and find her the best psychiatrist... If she wants to lock herself up, then give her some time and don't force her."

He paused and said, "The most important thing is... don't let her get close to this orphanage again. She has suffered enough. Don't let her recall this."

At this point, Black Pupa suddenly twitched the corners of his lips in self-mockery. "You know what, Mr. Blue Arc, apart from you, I don't know who else in this city I can trust. This person must be you. I only trust you. You must take her away and see her get better with your own eyes, otherwise I will not forgive you."

Upon hearing this, Gu Qiye on the other end of the phone was stunned.

He could tell that the tone of Hei Pupa's voice had changed significantly. There was no trace of joking in it anymore, and he was no longer so cynical. It was just like a lonely child clenching his fists, begging him for something.

"Although I don't know what happened yet... I will go to the welfare home right away," said Gu Qinye.

"See you."

After saying this, he hung up the phone. Ji Minghuan looked at the dean lying on the ground with empty eyes for a while, then looked at the hexagram pattern he drew, then slowly turned sideways and faced the city in the rain.

"The Salvation Army...wash your neck and wait for me."

The restraints crawled up his body like black snakes, tightly wrapping around every inch of his skin. A thunderclap fell in the violent rain, illuminating the slender black shadow in front of the window. Then his figure disappeared in an instant, as if blown away by gusts of endless wind.

Three minutes later, in the basement of the library.

A deep blue flash of lightning flashed across the sky, its dazzling arcs sweeping in all directions, sweeping away the darkness that covered the weeds. Gu Qiye stopped, still wearing casual clothes, seemingly having not had time to change into his combat uniform.

With the help of the lingering lightning, he could see the girl clearly in the dark.

After a moment of hesitation, Gu Qiye raised his right hand, gathered the lightning on his index finger as a light source, and carefully looked at the wounds on the girl's body and the chains tied on her hands and feet.

"Beast..."

He murmured softly, his face twitching slightly, and he walked slowly forward. His right hand, which was wrapped in lightning, shook lightly, and the iron chains broke one by one and fell all over the ground with a clang.

Gu Qinye picked up the girl's body, trying his best not to hurt her scarred joints.

The girl opened her eyes and looked at him with fear in her eyes. She wanted to speak, but she seemed to have lost her voice. Only her lips moved slightly: "Dean..., take me..."

Gu Qiye lowered his eyes and whispered to the girl in his arms, "It's okay... You are safe now, Dean. You will never come back."

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure once again transformed into a streak of cold lightning and disappeared on the spot.

It was raining heavily in Lijing that day, and the whole city was shrouded in a gloomy sky, but the residents huddled in front of the fireplace watching TV and spent an ordinary morning.

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